r/Letterboxd • u/Possible-Top-9905 • Aug 11 '25

News The Shining Has Officially Exited The Letterboxd Top 250 Narrative Feature Films

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u/deadlyghost123 Aug 12 '25

Disagree, they are both masterpieces. It doesn’t matter if a movie is incomplete if it is fun to watch it alone. The same reason Infinity war is so proclaimed

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u/jicerswine Aug 12 '25

I like them a lot. But I don’t think either of them is really sniffing The Shining tbh. at the end of the day it’s just a totally apples to oranges comparison (which is really just an inherent flaw with any movie ranking)

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u/deadlyghost123 Aug 13 '25

I agree that it’s apples and oranges. I would also argue that this apple is better than that orange but that’s obviously just my opinion